In 1994, he wrote the influential joint government and industry report on the UK construction industry, 'Constructing the Team'[4] (known as the Latham Report). In it he advocated partnerships within the fragmented and highly contentious construction industry.[3] More significantly, he made many recommendations as to how conflict could be minimised within the industry. Such was the nature and extent of these recommendations that Mr Justice Jackson later described the report as "the whirlwind which hit the construction industry".[5]